WEST
Right from the university’s
opening in 1891, the
garden became a favorite
meeting spot of court-
ing undergrads. Hundred-
year-old silvery Yucca
x schottii frame the left
side of a path. Tall Italian
cypresses, replacements
for the originals, lend
verticality. A columnar
Echinopsis terscheckii
and red-flowered Aloe
arborescens fill the bed at
right, edged by serpentine
rock. In the distance,
a towering Washingtonia
filifera planted by Ulrich
flaunts its fronds.